China Day 2 Shopping

zandertoy December 5, 2011

Last night for Dinner Christina took me to this amazing Sichuan restaurant. We had hot pot which consisted of all of these veggies and a whole fish.

Was super delicious but freakin spicy as hell! The waitress put in a ziploc bag full of hot spicy oil. Was so delicious though.


I was freakin bloated by the time dinner was over I could barely breathe. Had to eat like a bowl and a half of rice to cool down my mouth.

After dinner I dropped off my bags and headed outside to shop a little. One of the stores that we passed on my way home was Cabeem which is a store that they have in Chinatown in the city. I walked around and ended up buying these kick ass asymetrical velcro kicks for only $60 dollars.

I also got these amazing little leather key charms. They are so adorable that I may even go back tonight to buy more of them.

China Trip Day 2

zandertoy December 5, 2011

So this marks my 2nd day in China. I arrived yesterday around 3 in the afternoon and arrived at my hotel around 5 or 6pm.

I chilled in the room for a bit and then headed to find the spa on the 6th floor for a nice relaxing massage.

This is my first time here at this hotel HJ International hotel and I can honestly say that this hotel room is larger than my apt in NYC. Kind of ridiculous. My bed is this gigantic king size bed that I feel like a child in a grown up bed. Its actually fantastic and definitely one of the things I look forward to on my trips over here.

After my massage I went over to the Japanese restaurant for some pork ramen and spider roll then headed back to the room and basically just passed out.

Today I woke up around 6:30 in the morning and called Mom and Adis for a bit then showered and headed down to breakfast. I was so dam hungry this morning.

This is my first time here at the factory and so far very impressed with the this factory. Its huge and so clean and well organized definitely a step up from the other factories I have been to.

For lunch Christina took me to this chinese buffet restaurant. The food was just OK since I am not a huge fan of buffet style food. Looking forward to our dinner tonight though. I think we are going for Sichuan food! Yayy

Weekend in Jersey

zandertoy November 28, 2011

Wow what an exhausting day. Had a full day of work and then off to NJ to see the family.

I also remembered that I have Monday off so I have to go into the office on Sunday to get work done. Hopefully i won’t be there too long.

Really excited to see the family for Thanksgiving- definitely my favorite holiday of the year!

zandertoy November 22, 2011

First day back at the office. Super excited because we received alot of the Fall12 samples. They look really great.

Joy an Pete are really happy with how they look. :-)

So many dam emails today and so much to do before thanksgiving off. Hopefully it all gets done.

Tonight I made shrimp stir fry with fried tofu dish. Was delicious!

Location:Tianping Rd,Dongwan,China

Relaxing Day/ Spring rolls

zandertoy November 21, 2011

What an amazing day. Woke up today around noon. It was fantastic and so relieved that I did not have to go into the office.

I spent most of the day chilling at home cleaning up and then head to drop off my coat at the tailors.

Afterwards went to Chinatown to shop for some groceries.

For dinner I made summer rolls for the first time. Honestly they didn’t turn our as delicious as expected since I forgot to insert the noodles duhhhh but also I didn’t have the correct peanut sauce. I found a simple peanut sauce recipe and will definitely try that next time.

Food Poisoned in Korea

zandertoy November 19, 2011

Got crazy food poisoned from something I ate last night.

I knew that I got food poisoned from the weird feeling of not being able to digest the food and then I got a stomach ache.

For the rest of the night I had ED the entire night every single hour. It was awful and so annoying.

I woke up to the sound of my room phone ringing which was my co worker waiting in the lobby downstairs. It was bad because I ended up being an hour late to work. Really glad that it was a small meeting so didn’t matter that much.

We had a simple Chinese lunch with the team and after that we went our separate ways. Relieved to be leaving the MCM office.

Kenny took us back to our hotel and we hung around, ahopped for a bit and then grabbed some coffee.

Afterwards Kenny took me to this fantastic place for a massage. It was perfect since after the food poisoning my I had body aches.

We then headed to a simple Korean dinner close to the hotel and then called it a night.

MCM Trip/ Korea

zandertoy November 18, 2011

Was nervous about the presentation today because i though Ms Kin would tear us to shreds but it turns out she was very happy with the collection.

Had a wonderful day because We had a great meeting.

Our groups had samples that did not turn put that great since only 1 style of each was represented for each group.

After the long ass meeting we all went out to dinner at this nice Korean place. After the meeting I went with the team to Gam gang San which is a huge mall with all kinds of stuff. I didn’t end up buying anything.

I got home kid of feeling sick. I didn’t know what was going on but after trying to go to bed with stomach pains I realized that I was still full. The last time I felt like that I had food poisoning. It’s like your body know when to digest food.

I ended up puling the dinner up and then woke up every hour to diarrhea. It was so awful. I’m super exhausted because I only slept this few hours in between going to the bathroom.

Sick in Korea. :-(

MCM Korea day 2

zandertoy November 15, 2011

Landed at the airport around 6pm and learned something new.

Go to the international taxi Stand at airport to get flat rates to go to the hotel. This nice guy told me that if you wait in the regular taxi stand they rip tourists off.

I got to the hotel around 7ish dropped off my luggage and went out shopping for a bit. I was kind of just browsing first to soak it all in and then plan to go back to those shops tomorrow.

Had dinner at Pho Tai a vietnamese place. Tomorrow definitely having Korean food.

Got back to the hotel around 10:30pm and unpacked and called Furry for a quick chat before bedtime.

MOMA / Parents Day at FIT

zandertoy November 5, 2011

This morning I woke up to a delicious baked eggs breakfast.


After breakfast we headed to the Talk To me exhibit at Moma. The exhibit was all about design and communication between people and objects.


This exhibit was so interactive especially since almost all of them had QR codes so that you can visit their websites and find out more about their work. Walking through this exhibit made me think about how connected we are to technology today. I remember growing up and the most used tech device was a video game and pagers.


For lunch we went to Menchanko Tei ramen place-delicious ramen that totally hit the spot.


After lunch we went to F.I.T. for Parents day. I was asked to be part of the Alumni panel (6 people) to speak about the the accessories program and how the education I received got me to where I am today.


I asked Furry to come with me and really glad that he did. Even though the auditorium was not as crowded as expected the fact that this was my first time speaking to an audience really was an awarding experience. I am also really happy that Furry has some of my talk on video.

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My 29th Birthday Brunch

zandertoy October 16, 2011

Let me start out by saying how fucking beautiful this day was.

Furry had planned a wonderful bday brunch at Cafe Lyon in the west village.

He invited a few of my friends and co-workers and it was the perfect amount of people. Lolli, Adam, Mam, Tia, Diana, Laurence, Daniela and Luna.

We had such a fantastic time and the food was so dam delicious. I had the baked egg dish which was amazing and plus we ordered their BANGIN bread basket which had the yummiest pieces of bread.

To be quite honest Diana got me the most amazing gift of all which was a photo of Bart and I on the beach at Southampton. Definitely a memorable trip and a great experience with all of us.

Laurence got me a wonderful little travel kit from Flight001 and Adam got me the cute iPhone case that I wanted. Mamsie got me a gift card to an Indian restaurant which was super sweet since she knows how much I enjoy food.

It was really nice to have this awesome get together with friends and my Lovely and so happy for the sweet simple day.

Afterwards Daniela, Lollise and Luna came over to hang for a bit and then after Lolli left Daniela took Furry and I out to eat a Mole.